On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 01:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: > I would like to say unlikey. But I know for a fact at least three at a > time. So that leaves room for a show or two to record and everyone > watching TV. But I do hear what you are saying. > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Ribe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup advice > > > One more thing: > > Even though you have 5 TVs, make sure you really need 5 > tuners. How often are all 5 TV's in use at the same time? > Now, consider that each of those 5 TV's will have access to a > huge library of previously recorded shows and DVDs. Now, how > likely is it that you will ever need 5 tuners simultaneously?
Once you get mythtv setup and get your recordings scheduled for the shows everyone wants to watch, you will find that it will be rare that anyone wants to watch live TV. They will simply go to the recorded shows that have already been commercial flagged and watch those. And you don't need a tuner available to watch recorded shows. I have found that four tuners seems to eliminate almost all conflicts. Have had only one so far that could not be resolved. You do need to understand that you might not get a particular show the first time it airs, you may have to wait a couple of days when they repeat it. You will probably also want to setup a splitter to take the cable feed directly to the TV so you have inputs from the mythtv frontend as well as the cable system. IMHO trying to channel surf with mythtv is probably not going to be acceptable to most people. It is easier to just switch directly to the cable input and use the TVs tuner to channel surf. There have been several discussions on this topic in this list. But as I said before, once everyone gets used to the fact that a show they want to watch is available as a recording the won't be channel surfing that much if at all.
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